Mort Fligelman
Member III
I am looking for someone who has done this by the manual before!
Last fall when I winterized my boat for the brutal winter on the hard I got very involved with the winter cover, and winterizing the Air Conditioner, and really had not given the hot water heater much thought......Just figured to make it easy and pour enough anti freeze into the starboard fresh water tank and all would be fine.
To my chagrin......the hot water tank STINKS to high heaven, as running the engine heated the antifreeze, and in error the a/c breaker was turned on really heating up the witches brew......needless to say...it aint gonna happen again......it has taken all summer draining and refilling to get it clean......
In reading the downloaded manual it states that the coolant hoses have to be taken off of the hot water heater, and joined, as you can't run the engine without water in the water heater.........
I don't understand this, as I would be running 160 degree coolant through the captive system and this should not be hot enough to do any damage......BUT!!!!!! is there something I am missing.
My plan is to install a bypass Kit from W/M (Camco) on the water tank.......open the small petcock on the tank and drain the water down to where it cannot expand enough to do any damage.....I want to do this while the boat is still in the water, and the the engine will run aproximatly 20 to 30 minutes to get to the slip with the travel lift......
All advice will be appreciated.....
Thanks
Last fall when I winterized my boat for the brutal winter on the hard I got very involved with the winter cover, and winterizing the Air Conditioner, and really had not given the hot water heater much thought......Just figured to make it easy and pour enough anti freeze into the starboard fresh water tank and all would be fine.
To my chagrin......the hot water tank STINKS to high heaven, as running the engine heated the antifreeze, and in error the a/c breaker was turned on really heating up the witches brew......needless to say...it aint gonna happen again......it has taken all summer draining and refilling to get it clean......
In reading the downloaded manual it states that the coolant hoses have to be taken off of the hot water heater, and joined, as you can't run the engine without water in the water heater.........
I don't understand this, as I would be running 160 degree coolant through the captive system and this should not be hot enough to do any damage......BUT!!!!!! is there something I am missing.
My plan is to install a bypass Kit from W/M (Camco) on the water tank.......open the small petcock on the tank and drain the water down to where it cannot expand enough to do any damage.....I want to do this while the boat is still in the water, and the the engine will run aproximatly 20 to 30 minutes to get to the slip with the travel lift......
All advice will be appreciated.....
Thanks
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